From our Bureau of Perfectly Acceptable and Praiseworthy Apartheid with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Social Justice Aaaaah, the many joys of apartheid, especially in socialist utopias! For the past few weeks, Castro, Inc.'s oligarchs have been dwelling on the subject of fish. One of them says that there aren't any fish to
Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen Ernesto Guevara is the son of Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary. He runs a motorcycle touring company in Havana, Cuba. It is called La Ponderosa like the motorcycle in the movie "The Motorcycle Diaries". His tours are for groups and individuals an
there s no logic to criticize what president obama did. this is a wise and courageous thing for president obama to do and in my opinion, long overdue. in my time in the white house, we would have had diplomatic relationships there and maintained since 1979 in havana and in washington. do you see, i mean, it s interesting. obviously, you know fidel and raul castro. raul, how does he compare? is he hard lined as fidel castro, do you see any efforts or willingness of this regime by raul castro to really effect change towards democracy? people in cuba still really respect and revere almost fidel castro but there s no doubt under raul s presidency, there have been a lot of openness and reforms implemented in cuba, particularly, economic in nature. a lot of things are permitted in cuba now that were not permitted as long as fidel was in office. so i think with raul, this is what he told me personally and all the visitors is he s looking for an opportunity to open up cuba step by step. i
a lot of the survival depends on venezuelan oil money is drying up and economy is in shambles. we ve held it in place for 50 plus years. the cuban regime, two castro brothers since january 1st, 1959. over half a century. we are a lot closer to the end than we are to the beginning and so now when we are so close to the end of the castros, the end of that regime, when you haven t seen fidel castro react because if he s alive, he s too weak or too senile to know this just happened and react. now that we are so close to the end of those two dictators who have oppressed these people for over half a century, now we re going to change and do it unilaterally without them lifting the oppression? ana, what sign do you see